We can rebuild her

Well, more accurately - we have rebuilt her. The RV4 is ready for re-maidening today. Hopefully some of my maiden flight luck will return. Remains to be seen I suppose.

The repairs took a large chunk of time, and although I am mostly quite happy with the way she went back together I am a little concerned about the thrust line, and also concerned about whether the crash has weakened other parts of the airframe. I did my best to build in the down and to the right thrustline, but I could easily have over done it in both cases.

Heading down to Curtin to give the RV4, amongst probably most of my planes, another fly this morning. I have a new 3s 800mAh battery for the zero, which will have quite a short flight duration, but which should be quite quick and entertaining whilst it is flying. If I draw 10 amps I'll only get about 4-5 minutes flying. It will be brushed, but with 11.1 volts that will be about 110Watts, which should make the little zero fly quite well. There really was no scope for a bigger battery - the compartment on the zero just wouldn't handle it.